Will you be ditching your 980 TI\TX for Pascal?

[easyrider]

Prove it.

Oh dear...

With Pascal/GP104 particulars out of the way, let’s talk about the cards themselves. “The new king” as NVIDIA affectionately calls it will be the GTX 1080, and will be their new flagship card. NVIDIA is promoting it as having better performance than both GTX 980 SLI and GTX Titan X. NVIDIA’s own performance marketing slides put the average at around 65% faster than GTX 980 and 20-25% faster than GTX Titan X/980 Ti, which is relatively consistent for a new NVIDIA GPU. Of course, real-world performance remains to be seen, and will vary from game to game.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10304/nvidia-announces-the-geforce-gtx-1080-1070/2

 

[easyrider]

Fair enough, I could've sworn I read somewhere that the numbers were much higher. I'll give you that one then

 

[easyrider]

Who buys a £500 GPU and expects it not to drop in value when a newer better card comes out for the same or less money.

I bought a 980ti in the release week and feel like I have got my moneys worth out of it. I can understand people feeling miffed if you bought one in the last month or so, but that's poor research.

I certainly won't be swapping it for a regular 1080, because, in my opinion, you need to be getting at least a 50% performance increase to feel like a noticeable upgrade. (I'm sure some people will say that they can tell the difference going from 60 fps to 70 fps, but to me it isn't worth it).

I have done some similar smaller sidegrades in the past, and been very "meh" about them afterwards and regretted the decision, I much prefer to do bigger upgrades these days where you actually think, WOW, this is noticeably better than my last card in this particular game.

People are just to weak...they then suffer from purchase justification complex...

 

[easyrider]

The 1080ti is the card to get IMO...

Anyone with a 980ti or tx needs to sit tight and get the real upgrade..

 

[easyrider]

Need != want

People can do whatever they want with their disposable income.

Yeah they can...

Your point?

 

[easyrider]

You seem to be getting a bit uptight about people trading a 980ti for a 1080. You yourself had your ti up for sale a few weeks ago but didnt take steps to secure the price you wanted, now prices have dropped even further youre having a tough time justifying trading your 980ti even though you obviously really want a 1080.

I was offered asking but chose to keep it...

I'm not fussed about losing a few hundred on a card...but a 25 % boost on a 16nm 256bit card is not really that exciting...

I'll wait for the 1080ti

Hell I might even get another 980ti and run sli until the 1080ti hits...

I'm running an x34 Gsync monitor I'll be eager to see how the 1080 copes over the 980ti running this res.

This is all I am interested in...if it's a massive upgrade I'll buy one...but I just don't see it...

 

[easyrider]

Ouch Andy!

Hardly...

I don't panick sell...and I don't fall under the new NV shiney spell...

If people are getting consistent 100fps on an x34 with a 1080 on max settings I'll bite...

Until I get the findings off others here with actual testing I'll wait...

It's as simple as that really.

 

[easyrider]

I believe the current accepted rumour is that the Ti and Titan versions of Pascal will have HBM2.

And all the 1080 adopters from 980ti will have buyers remorse

 

[easyrider]

Seen as i purchased my 980ti hydro copper in February this year, I'm going to keep mine until the big boys come out.

I may even wait till the end of next year to see what comes out then like a pascal titan x.

The 1080's sure do look nice at a excellent price point.

But i think my 980ti at 1550 overclocked will do just fine at the moment.

No panick sell...lose 300 on it and get a less than 25% boost...

Spoiler

i hope you realise I'm kidding

 

[easyrider]

A 1080ti with HBM 2 sounds epic.

 

[easyrider]

Where does it say that?

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1080-asynchronous-compute/

 

[easyrider]

Does the 1080 only have 256 bus speed?

Yeah

 

[easyrider]

That's an option too. If people start throwing their 980Tis away then I'd happily sell my 980s and bag two cheap 980Tis.

I don't think they will TBH...

It will all depend on real world gains ...

Most would rather wait I reckon and take even more of a hit when 1080ti comes out.

 

[easyrider]

There is no almost about it. The offers of £210 and £200 for the Ti on MM yesterday were insulting.

They should have been banned IMO.

 

[easyrider]

It's a free market essentially, and I have no problem telling people to **** off (with a smile) if they make silly offers on the MM. They just make themselves look stupid.

Well yep I agree, I was surprised at the at least one of the usernames ...

 

[easyrider]

Not upgrading my SLI 980Ti setup.

Looking at prices right now, selling in the next few days might get £375 or so at on that auction site, £400 if you're lucky (prices will likely drop heavily over the coming days as we get closer to the end of the NDA period). So take the earlier price, Factor in shipping at £15, auction fees at £40, PayPal fees on top at £13.80, that's roughly £320 per card. You sell here you'll get even less, even without there being fees.

Let's say £550 for a 1080 when they are actually released. £1100 in total to replace my SLI setup. Is the performance upgrade worth £400-500? I don't think anybody can reasonably justify that.

At the end of the day, you'll always take a significant hit. It comes down to sooner or later. My setup is more than adequate for the next couple of years, so I'd get more for my money waiting for a "1080Ti" or "1180".

Agreed

 

[easyrider]

I'm looking to do that, go from 970 to 980Ti.....but I don't know if I should wait and get a 1070. Are 1070's likely to be slower than the 980Ti?

No one knows at this time...